Wright of Derby (Joseph, 1734-1797). Portrait of John Harrison surgeon of Derby, circa 1781, oil on canvas, half-length in three-quarter profile to left, wearing a plain dark vest, coat, and white cravat, 74 x 61 cm (29 x 24 ins), gilt moulded frame (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Nathaniel Curzon, Esq., 1870; thence by descent to John Curzon of Lockington Hall, Derby (Derby Art Gallery labels for Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition loans for 1934 & 1947 to verso); acquired by the current owner's family at Christie's, King Street, London, 21 March 1975, lot 81. Literature: Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1968, vol. 1, pp. 69-70, 200-201; vol. 2, p. 122, plate 199. 'Not only is the portrait listed in the Account Book among portraits of c. 1781, it also belongs stylistically to this date or slightly earlier. The subject must therefore be wrongly identified as John Harrison clock-maker and inventor of a marine chronometer who died in March 1776 before Wright got back from Bath. Wright calls him a doctor, so he is probably the "surgeon in Wardwick", Mr. John Harrison in whose house the daughter of Edward Wilmot of Duffield died (see Derby Mercury, 24th September 1786). He is described in Derby Mercury, 11th October 1781 as having died: "surgeon aged 64..." The portrait could show a man of c. 56.' (Nicolson, ibid., pp. 201-203). John Harrison (circa 1723-1787), surgeon of Derby. He was appointed the first surgeon to Derby Gaol, on compulsion by Act of Parliament, in 1774, Timothy Pitman becoming a partner in this role in 1784. A notice in the Derby Mercury (13 December 1771) advertises the resumption of Harrison's inoculation service 'for the Season, to Inoculate as usual, on Mr. Sutton's Plan'. A mezzotint engraving from this portrait was engraved by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812), circa 1781 (for which see lot 46).
Wright of Derby (Joseph, 1734-1797). Portrait of John Harrison surgeon of Derby, circa 1781, oil on canvas, half-length in three-quarter profile to left, wearing a plain dark vest, coat, and white cravat, 74 x 61 cm (29 x 24 ins), gilt moulded frame (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Nathaniel Curzon, Esq., 1870; thence by descent to John Curzon of Lockington Hall, Derby (Derby Art Gallery labels for Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition loans for 1934 & 1947 to verso); acquired by the current owner's family at Christie's, King Street, London, 21 March 1975, lot 81. Literature: Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1968, vol. 1, pp. 69-70, 200-201; vol. 2, p. 122, plate 199. 'Not only is the portrait listed in the Account Book among portraits of c. 1781, it also belongs stylistically to this date or slightly earlier. The subject must therefore be wrongly identified as John Harrison clock-maker and inventor of a marine chronometer who died in March 1776 before Wright got back from Bath. Wright calls him a doctor, so he is probably the "surgeon in Wardwick", Mr. John Harrison in whose house the daughter of Edward Wilmot of Duffield died (see Derby Mercury, 24th September 1786). He is described in Derby Mercury, 11th October 1781 as having died: "surgeon aged 64..." The portrait could show a man of c. 56.' (Nicolson, ibid., pp. 201-203). John Harrison (circa 1723-1787), surgeon of Derby. He was appointed the first surgeon to Derby Gaol, on compulsion by Act of Parliament, in 1774, Timothy Pitman becoming a partner in this role in 1784. A notice in the Derby Mercury (13 December 1771) advertises the resumption of Harrison's inoculation service 'for the Season, to Inoculate as usual, on Mr. Sutton's Plan'. A mezzotint engraving from this portrait was engraved by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812), circa 1781 (for which see lot 46).
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